French court recognises crime in Air France crash

A French High Court strongly suspects foul play occurred in an Air France crash last year.

Var High Court, which is located in southern France, formally acknolweleged that the existence of crime was highly suspected in an Air France crash on Flight 447 of last year, May 31 to be exact, which was heading from Rio de Janerio in Brazil on its way to the French capital Paris but sank in the Atlantic Ocean - killing all 228 passengers and crew members that were aboard in turn. The crash was deemed by accident experts as being one of the most costly in the history of aviation, with 700 million Euros lost.

The Var Court defined the crime to be manslaughter, without an intent to kill, an means that the families of the victims need not wait any longer to learn of the outcome of investigations or if they will receive damages. In compliance with the Provisional Order, problems apparently occurred on the plane because of its Thales AA speed sensors, as in prior flights of the AF-447, which are adequate to constitute a crime. Calibration faults of the speed sensors aboard the Air Bus aircraft, facilitated with probes, were verified more than twelve times before the crash occured, including for Air Caraibes.
 

After their discovery, the company's technicians alerted the manufacturers of Air Bus aircrafts that sensors clogged-up with ice could trigger a series of failures in the vital navigation systems of aircraft. It was also decided in court that the French government should pay out 20,000 euros in total to the family of half-French, half-Argentine stewardess Clara Amadon - with the sum to be equally split between her father and her brother.

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